2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 March 2021 at 12:22 (heats), and on 6 March at 19:50 (final) local time. The event was won by Belgium's Elise Vanderelst in a time of 4:18.44 minutes.

In the final Spain's Águeda Marqués and Great Britain's Holly Archer were initially disqualified for jostling. Archer had her disqualification overturned on appeal and won the silver medal.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Elise Vanderelst Belgium	Holly Archer Great Britain	Hanna Klein Germany

Records

Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships
World record	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	3:53.09	Liévin, France	9 February 2021
European record	Abeba Aregawi (SWE)	3:57.91	Stockholm, Sweden	6 February 2014
Championship record	Laura Muir (GBR)	4:02.39	Belgrade, Serbia	4 March 2017
World Leading	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	3:53.09	Liévin, France	9 February 2021
European Leading	Laura Muir (GBR)	3:59.58	Liévin, France	9 February 2021

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the Final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Note
1	3	Hanna Klein	Germany	4:09.35	Q
2	1	Holly Archer	Great Britain	4:09.77	Q, PB
3	1	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	4:09.92	Q, SB
4	3	Águeda Marqués	Spain	4:09.94	Q, PB
5	1	Elise Vanderelst	Belgium	4:10.49	q
6	3	Katie Snowden	Great Britain	4:10.70	q
7	1	Marta Pérez	Spain	4:11.27	q
8	1	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic	4:11.48	PB
9	3	Martyna Galant	Poland	4:12.08
10	2	Daryia Barysevich	Belarus	4:12.11	Q
11	2	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4:12.39	Q
12	1	Federica Del Buono	Italy	4:12.79	SB
13	3	Marta Pen Freitas	Portugal	4:12.95
14	2	Caterina Granz	Germany	4:13.53
15	3	Lenuța Simiuc	Romania	4:14.94	PB
16	2	Gaia Sabbatini	Italy	4:17.21
17	1	Orysya Demyanyuk	Ukraine	4:17.52
18	2	Claudia Bobocea	Romania	4:18.00
19	2	Klaudia Kazimierska	Poland	4:18.24
20	2	Lindsey De Grande	Belgium	4:18.45
21	3	Anastasia-Panayiota Marinakou	Greece	4:19.60	SB
22	3	Vera Hoffmann	Luxembourg	4:20.50

Final

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Elise Vanderelst	Belgium	4:18.44
	Holly Archer	Great Britain	4:19.91
	Hanna Klein	Germany	4:20.07
4	Marta Pérez	Spain	4:20.39
5	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4:20.45
6	Katie Snowden	Great Britain	4:21.81
7	Daryia Barysevich	Belarus	4:22.98
8	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	4:24.26
	Águeda Marqués	Spain	DQ

References

^ Chowdury, Saj (2021-03-06). European Indoors 2021: Holly Archer takes silver after winning appeal. BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

[1] Chowdury, Saj (2021-03-06). European Indoors 2021: Holly Archer takes silver after winning appeal. BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-03-07.

[2] "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2021-03-05.

[3] "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

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